Sentence examples for geriatric service from inspiring English sources

"We have come to equate being old with being senile, and that's not true," said Dr. Charles Shamoian, director of the geriatric service at the Westchester division in White Plains.

Aim of the present observational study was to evaluate the characteristics of elderly patients reporting headache in an outpatient geriatric service in Italy.

The ideal would be to have a geriatric service within the hospital that can train specialist doctors in gerontology, and above all to establish health structures that could ensure the proper care of the elderly subject.

Community nurses work closely alongside with the community geriatric service nurse in old age homes and the psychiatric outreach team.

On average, it took two days from the admission for the primary care team to enter an order requesting the geriatric service.

Included patients were admitted to a geriatric service (N = 37) or seen in consultation on an internal medicine (N = 25) or surgical (N = 15) ward.

Indian researchers and experts, including the ICMR, have reached consensus on the need to educate and train healthcare providers in geriatrics, and to develop gender-sensitive and rural-based geriatric services that operate through the existing primary healthcare system [ 5, 7, 14, 29, 39, 40].

Donations: Boston U. Geriatric Services, 88 East Newton St., Boston, MA 02118.

"I think she was about 89 when she began to focus on the lack of geriatric services," her son said.

Contributions may be made in his memory to Baystate Health Foundation, 280 Chestnut St., Springfield, MA 01199 or Jewish Geriatric Services, 770 Converse St., Longmeadow, MA 01106.

On average, in Boult's study, the geriatric services cost the hospital $1,350 more per person than the savings they produced, and Medicare, the insurer for the elderly, does not cover that cost.